Vincent Trocheck and Brandon Pirri had the only shootout goals to lift the Florida Panthers to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.
Roberto Luongo made 29 saves through overtime, before stopping Pavel Datsyuk and Gustav Nyquist in the tiebreaker to give the Panthers their second victory in two meetings against the Red Wings this season.
Tomas Fleischmann and Jonathan Huberdeau scored in the first period for the Panthers.
Riley Sheahan and Nyquist also scored in the first for Detroit, while Jimmy Howard finished with 24 saves.
The Red Wings fell to 1-5 in shootouts this season.
PENGUINS 3, FLAMES 1
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Blake Comeau and Kris Letang scored early in the first period to lead Pittsburgh past Calgary.
Rob Klinkhammer also scored to help the Penguins beat the Flames for the eighth straight time. Pittsburgh’s last loss to Calgary was on Dec. 3, 2005.
Johnny Gaudreau had the only goal for the Flames, who have lost four in a row.
The Penguins played without defending NHL scoring champion Sidney Crosby, who was also due to miss yesterday’s game at Columbus while he awaits the results of medical tests for an illness that caused the right side of his face to swell.
Though there have been more than a dozen cases of mumps around the NHL, Crosby does not believe that he has the illness.
CANADIENS 6, KINGS 2
In Montreal, Jiri Sekac scored two goals and Cary Price stopped 44 shots to help Montreal win their second consecutive game.
P.K. Subban had a goal and two assists, while David Desharnais and Andre Markov each had a goal and an assist. Sven Andrighetto also scored for Montreal.
Defensemen Jake Muzzin and Drew Doughty scored for the Kings, who have lost three of four.
Backup goalie Martin Jones finished with 14 saves. Jones, coming off shutouts in his previous two starts, gave up three goals on the first eight shots he faced.
At the other end, Price made save after brilliant save until Muzzin finally got the Kings on the scoreboard at 3 minutes, 35 seconds of the third period.
DUCKS 4, OILERS 2
In Edmonton, Alberta, Sami Vatanen and Ryan Getzlaf each had a goal and an assist as league-leading Anaheim won their sixth straight and ninth in 11 games.
Kyle Palmieri and Nate Thompson also scored for the Ducks.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB